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APJ ABDUL KALAM TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
THIRD SEMESTER B.TECH DEGREE EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2018
Course Code: HS210

Course Name: LIFE SKILLS

Max. Marks: 50 Duration: 2 Hours
PART A

Answer all questions, each carries 6 marks. Marks

1 Your college recently organised a seminar on ‘Say No to Tobacco’. The speakers (6)

included well known educationists and doctors. Write a report on the same for
your college magazine in not more than 100 words.
2 a) You were asked to give a speech on global warming for the Environment Day (3)

celebration in your college. Prepare the data needed by the method of mind

mapping.
b) Give 3 differences between critical thinking and creative thinking. (3)
3 What are the different steps taken in group problem solving? (6)
4 ஐ Explain the meaning and need of work ethics. (3)

b) What is environmental ethics and comment on environmental ethics and (3)

engineers?
5 Give a short note on leadership styles. (6)
PART 13
Read carefully the following case and answer the questions given below, it carries 20 marks.
6 (Case study)

The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, March 24,
1989, when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker owned by Exxon Shipping Company,
bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef, 1.5
miles west of Tatitlek, Alaska at 12:04 am local time and spilled 10.8 million US
gallons (or a mass of 35,000 metric tonnes) of crude oil over the next few days. It
is considered to be one of the most devastating human-caused environmental
disasters. Prince William Sound's remote location, accessible only by helicopter,
plane, or boat, made government and industry response efforts difficult and
severely taxed existing response plans. The region is a habitat for salmon, sea
otters, seals and seabirds. The oil, originally extracted at the Prudhoe Bay oil

field, eventually covered 1,300 miles (2,100 km) of coastline, and 11,000 square

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